This has already been reported to wai-site-comments.
Unfortunately, the implementation of tabindex in many other browser
versions is problematic; we tried many different implementations of
tabindex on the page, and they created additional problems in some browser
versions.
We can look into it more, but I don't believe there is a simple solution of
adding tabindex to the page.
- Judy
At 08:42 AM 10/2/01 -0400, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>There doesn't seem to be a bug that I can find in the pages, so I suspect IE.
>A tabindex might help.
>
>Just as a side comment there is an address for site feedback at the W3C Home
>page and at the WAI home page, and that's a better first place to comment I
>think.
>
>Chaals
>
>On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
>
> I don't know whether to report this as a bug? or how?
> In any case might WAI need to consider rewriting their pages?
>
> graham wrote:
>
> Hi Jonathan
> I can confirm the strange behaviour on the WAI home
> page.
> I would say its a bug in IE6, there may be a
> workaround in terms of how the underlying code is
> written.
> For example a tabindex attribute may help things
> along.
>
> I wrote:
>
> Using ie6 tabbing in ie6 seems very chaotic, please try:
>
> tabbing at the wai homepage: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ it is very hard to
> navigate.
> Tab to an anchor link, press enter, and tab again. not what one would
> expect.
> a similar problem is here:
> http://www.learningdifficulty.org/develop/w3c-scripts.html
> I don't know whether this is an insoluble problem, however I'm finding it
> very frustrating.
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